Technological posthumanism assumes that humans will one day vacate the scene in favor of highly intelligent machines. According to this thesis, artificial intelligence is simply superior to humans. In order to enable a theological examination of technological posthumanism, a comparison between robotology and angelology is made in the present paper. It turns out that highly intelligent machines and angels each represent the limits of what is human. Unlike the angel, however, the robot does not point to the transcendental crisis of man, but only to his historical end. The anxieties associated with technological posthumanism can therefore be theologically invalidated. This becomes particularly clear by referring to Christology, which simultaneously implies a demotion of the angel and the robot.
Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2022/4 Zweimonatsschrift
(2022)
Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie
Personen: Klinge, Hendrik
Klinge, Hendrik:
Von der Angelologie zur Robotologie : zur theologischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem technologischen Posthumanismus / Hendrik Klinge, 2022. - Seite 284-296 - (Evangelische Theologie)
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